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Words to Live by

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Here’s one for the Season

A gypsy fire is on the hearth,
Sign of the carnival of mirth;
Through the dun fields and from the glade
Flash merry folk in masquerade,
For this is Hallowe’en!

Author Unknown

Words to Live by

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life,

ask yourself: What is my truest intention?

Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you.

When it’s right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

Oprah Winfrey

Words to Live by

Every day you may make progress.

Every step may be fruitful.

Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path.

You know you will never get to the end of the journey.

But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

Words to Live by

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

Words to Live by

When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,

then music, with her silver sound,

with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

Words to Live by

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind,

                                                                                                             but how to get old ones out.

                               Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture.

                                                   Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

Words to Live by

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire;

when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it,

but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates